Wangkui Braised Meat In Preserved Sauce

The storefront of Wangkui Braised Meat in Preserved Sauce carries a bright red signboard with prominent gold characters, sitting low along the street. While many shops in Xi'an serve various styles of braised pork, this kitchen specializes in a recipe perfected by Wang Kui in the nineteen thirties. He spent years adjusting the ratio of soy sauce, rock sugar, and over a dozen medicinal herbs to create a meat that falls away from the bone with nothing but the pressure of a chopstick.